Female prison guard being investigated over relationship with inmate in NSW jail

A female guard is being investigated over a relationship with an inmate at the Mid North Coast Correctional Centre. Picture: Nathan EdwardsSource:News Corp Australia

FURIOUS prison officers have branded a colleague being investigated over an illicit relationship with an inmate as a “deadset loser”.

The female guard was marched from Mid North Coast Correctional Centre last month and is being investigated for a relationship with a violent inmate described as a “brute” who is awaiting trial on a string of domestic violence-related offences.

It is just the latest behind bars tryst at the jail in Kempsey. It is the same prison where a 31-year-old prison officer was investigated for an illicit relationship with cowardly one-punch killer Kieran Loveridge two years ago.

Kieran Loveridge was involved in a relationship with a prison officer at the same jail two years ago.Source:News Limited

Loveridge, jailed for ­fatally punching Thomas Kelly in Kings Cross in 2012, was subsequently moved to Goulburn’s Supermax jail for disciplinary reasons.

As the latest in a string of people caught having illicit relationships, the woman at the middle of the current Kempsey scandal has disgusted other female officers.

“Makes it bad for all officers and especially women,” one prison officer said on Facebook.

Another said: “Would like to comment, but not allowed ... Only thing I can say is I am disgusted, once again, taking our name as dedicated officers into disrepute.”

“Idiot. Deadset loser!” said another.

The woman was also alleged to have been smuggling unspecified items to the inmate and communicated with him using aliases in phone calls but she is only under investigation for the alleged inappropriate relationship.

A Corrective Services NSW spokeswoman said the officer had been suspended pending the investigation.